511 Be gracious to me, O God , according to Your lovingkindness ; According to the greatness of Your compassion blot out my transgressions . 2 Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity And cleanse me from my sin . 3 For I know my transgressions , And my sin is ever before me. 4 Against You, You only , I have sinned And done what is evil in Your sight , So that You are justified when You speak And blameless when You judge . 5 Behold , I was brought forth in iniquity , And in sin my mother conceived me. 6 Behold , You desire truth in the innermost being , And in the hidden part You will make me know wisdom .
7 Purify me with hyssop , and I shall be clean ; Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow . 8 Make me to hear joy and gladness , Let the bones which You have broken rejoice . 9 Hide Your face from my sins And blot out all my iniquities . 10 Create in me a clean heart , O God , And renew a steadfast spirit within me. 11 Do not cast me away from Your presence And do not take Your Holy Spirit from me. 12 Restore to me the joy of Your salvation And sustain me with a willing spirit . 13 Then I will teach transgressors Your ways , And sinners will be converted to You.
14 Deliver me from bloodguiltiness , O God , the God of my salvation ; Then my tongue will joyfully sing of Your righteousness . 15 O Lord , open my lips , That my mouth may declare Your praise . 16 For You do not delight in sacrifice , otherwise I would give it; You are not pleased with burnt offering . 17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit ; A broken and a contrite heart , O God , You will not despise . 18 By Your favor do good to Zion ; Build the walls of Jerusalem . 19 Then You will delight in righteous sacrifices , In burnt offering and whole burnt offering ; Then young bulls will be offered on Your altar .
521 Why do you boast in evil , O mighty man ? The lovingkindness of God endures all day long. 2 Your tongue devises destruction , Like a sharp razor , O worker of deceit . 3 You love evil more than good , Falsehood more than speaking what is right . Selah . 4 You love all words that devour , O deceitful tongue . 5 But God will break you down forever ; He will snatch you up and tear you away from your tent , And uproot you from the land of the living . Selah .
6 The righteous will see and fear , And will laugh at him, saying, 7 "Behold , the man who would not make God his refuge , But trusted in the abundance of his riches And was strong in his evil desire ." 8 But as for me, I am like a green olive tree in the house of God ; I trust in the lovingkindness of God forever and ever . 9 I will give You thanks forever , because You have done it, And I will wait on Your name , for it is good , in the presence of Your godly ones .
531 The fool has said in his heart , "There is no God ," They are corrupt , and have committed abominable injustice ; There is no one who does good . 2 God has looked down from heaven upon the sons of men To see if there is anyone who understands , Who seeks after God . 3 Every one of them has turned aside ; together they have become corrupt ; There is no one who does good , not even one . 4 Have the workers of wickedness no knowledge , Who eat up My people as though they ate bread And have not called upon God ? 5 There they were in great fear where no fear had been ; For God scattered the bones of him who encamped against you; You put them to shame , because God had rejected them. 6 Oh e , that the salvation of Israel would come out of Zion ! When God restores His captive people , Let Jacob rejoice , let Israel be glad .
21 Therefore you have no excuse , everyone e of you who passes judgment , for in that which you judge another , you condemn yourself ; for you who judge practice the same things . 2 And we know that the judgment of God rightly e falls upon those who practice such things . 3 But do you suppose this , O man , when you pass judgment on those who practice such things and do the same yourself, that you will escape the judgment of God ? 4 Or do you think lightly of the riches of His kindness and tolerance and patience , not knowing that the kindness of God leads you to repentance ? 5 But because of your stubbornness and unrepentant heart you are storing up wrath for yourself in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God , 6 who WILL RENDER TO EACH PERSON ACCORDING TO HIS DEEDS : 7 to those who by perseverance in doing good seek for glory and honor and immortality , eternal life ; 8 but to those who are selfishly ambitious and do not obey the truth , but obey unrighteousness , wrath and indignation . 9 There will be tribulation and distress for every soul of man who does evil , of the Jew first and also of the Greek , 10 but glory and honor and peace to everyone who does good , to the Jew first and also to the Greek . 11 For there is no partiality with God . 12 For all who have sinned without the Law will also perish without the Law , and all who have sinned under the Law will be judged by the Law ; 13 for it is not the hearers of the Law who are just before God , but the doers of the Law will be justified . 14 For when Gentiles who do not have the Law do instinctively the things of the Law , these , not having the Law , are a law to themselves , 15 in that they show the work of the Law written in their hearts , their conscience bearing witness and their thoughts alternately accusing or else defending them, 16 on the day when , according to my gospel , God will judge the secrets of men through Christ Jesus .
17 But if you bear the name "Jew " and rely upon the Law and boast in God , 18 and know His will and approve the things that are essential , being instructed out of the Law , 19 and are confident that you yourself are a guide to the blind , a light to those who are in darkness , 20 a corrector of the foolish , a teacher of the immature , having in the Law the embodiment of knowledge and of the truth , 21 you, therefore , who teach another , do you not teach yourself ? You who preach that one shall not steal , do you steal ? 22 You who say that one should not commit adultery , do you commit adultery ? You who abhor idols , do you rob temples ? 23 You who boast in the Law , through your breaking the Law , do you dishonor God ? 24 For " THE NAME OF GOD IS BLASPHEMED AMONG THE GENTILES BECAUSE OF YOU," just as it is written . 25 For indeed circumcision is of value if you practice the Law ; but if you are a transgressor of the Law , your circumcision has become uncircumcision . 26 So if the uncircumcised man keeps the requirements of the Law , will not his uncircumcision be regarded as circumcision ? 27 And he who is physically uncircumcised , if he keeps the Law , will he not judge you who though having the letter of the Law and circumcision are a transgressor of the Law ? 28 For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly e , nor is circumcision that which is outward in the flesh . 29 But he is a Jew who is one inwardly ; and circumcision is that which is of the heart , by the Spirit , not by the letter ; and his praise is not from men , but from God .
